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Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante

The Boston Globe: Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Suggestions

Date: Sep 12 2015

“The Story of the Lost Child’’

Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa)

The fourth and last novel in the reclusive author’s wildly popular series about Elena and Lila, two best friends who grew up in a violent, insular Neapolitan neighborhood in the shadow of Vesuvius, reveals the tragedies that haunt the later phase of their life in Naples.